drive letter lost after reboot

[AlainBailleul]

Hi All,

I'm trying to install a second harddisk (maxtor 80GB, slave) with my old one (seagate 80 GB, master). My bios recognizes it well, but when I go in disk manager in windows 2000, and try to format, partition or setting a drive letter, I get the message "the operation can not be completed because the partition/volume is not enabled. Please reboot the computer to enable the partition/volume"

I tried it with fdisk. Can format, partitition a set a drive letter. I reboot and the drive is working. But if I reboot a second time, the drive letter is gone in disk manager.

If I connect the maxtor alone, I can do whatever I want with it. I tried it on another computer as a second disk, and get the same problem. On a friends pc as a second one, it works fine.

Any help is very much appreciated!

Alain

 

[wolluf]

The IDE cable's not damaged? Might be worth trying another one. Also - have you tried it connected to secondary IDE to see if that gives the same.

 

[AlainBailleul]

Hi Wolluf,

Yes, I tried it in different configs, and another IDE cable.
Althought win2000 does not give any hardware conflict, I'm afraid it is so anyway. I think reinstalling win2000 from scratch is going to be the only solution. :-(

Cheers